Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . , gunpowder, barracks, and navy gunners; the clerk ofthe Ordnance managed the estimates, money-arrangements, civilestablishment, pensions, superannuations, and Ordnance prop-erty; while the principal storekeeper had charge of stores, store-rooms, naval equipments, and naval war-stores. In matters re-. Bnar-Fish (C. Aper). lating to coast-defences, it was often difficult to decide betweenthe Admiralty and the Ordnance, each Board claiming the Crimean disasters took place in 1854. the defects of theB. o
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . , gunpowder, barracks, and navy gunners; the clerk ofthe Ordnance managed the estimates, money-arrangements, civilestablishment, pensions, superannuations, and Ordnance prop-erty; while the principal storekeeper had charge of stores, store-rooms, naval equipments, and naval war-stores. In matters re-. Bnar-Fish (C. Aper). lating to coast-defences, it was often difficult to decide betweenthe Admiralty and the Ordnance, each Board claiming the Crimean disasters took place in 1854. the defects of theB. of O. became fully ajjijarent: it could not work harmoniouslywith the other government departments. The Board was dis-solved, and the office of master-general abolished. By the War-office Act of 1870, the ])ost of surveyor-general of the Ordnancewas revived as one of the principal officers of the Secretary ofState for War. He is responsible for the matiriel and supplies ofthe army. BOARD OF TRADE. See Trade, Board op. BOAR-FISH (Cajiros), a genus of fishes of the Dory (q. v.)family, or Zeido, differing from the genus Zem, or Dory, in thestill more protractilemouth — the resem-blance of which to thesnout of a hog is sup-posed to have given oii-gin to the name—in thewant of spines at thebase of the dorsal andanal fins, and of longfilaments to the dorsalspines. The bod
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